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Old lines of trenches on the Somme, photographed in May 1917. Reserve trenches like this were dug in a zig zag pattern meant to prevent anyone from shooting straight down the trench during an attack.

Black and white photograph. Aerial view of the trench lines on the Somme. A narrow labyrinth of trenches cuts diagonally through the centre of the image, surrounded by an expanse of field pockmarked with craters. — (Canadian Dept. of National Defence, Library and Archives Canada, MIKAN No. 3395580.)

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